{"id":"ambalika-devi","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi","language":"en","name":"Ambalika Devi","name_en":"Ambalika Devi","name_ne":"अम्बालिकादेवी","description":"Nepalese poet and writer (1894-1936)","headline":"Nepalese poet and writer (1894-1936)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Ambalika Devi Upadhyaya, (20 May 1894 – 15 December 1936), affectionately known as Putali (Butterfly), was a Nepalese novelist, poet, and writer. She is regarded as the first female novelist of Nepal and is considered one of the pioneering figures of women's literature in Nepal.","summary_more":["Through her literary works, she contributed to the development of early modern Nepalese literature at a time when women had very limited participation in the literary field.","Her novel Rajput Ramani, published in 1932, is recognized as one of the earliest novels written by a Nepalese woman and remains an important work in the history of Nepalese literature."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"20 May 1894","date":"1894-05-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"15 December 1936","date":"1936-12-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Patna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80484"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109255088","page":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambika-prasad-upadhyaya"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727#P26"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambalika_Devi","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ambalika Devi born?","a":"Ambalika Devi was born on 20 May 1894 in Kathmandu."}],"related":[{"name":"The Buddha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/the-buddha"},{"name":"Dona Sarkar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dona-sarkar"},{"name":"Balkrishna Sama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/balkrishna-sama"},{"name":"Radha Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/radha-paudel"},{"name":"Yogmaya Neupane","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yogmaya-neupane"},{"name":"Bhupi Sherchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhupi-sherchan"},{"name":"Taranath Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/taranath-sharma"},{"name":"Chittadhar Hridaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chittadhar-hridaya"},{"name":"Lekhnath Paudyal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal"},{"name":"Siddhicharan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siddhicharan-shrestha"},{"name":"Krishna Lal Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-lal-adhikari"},{"name":"Nisthananda Bajracharya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nisthananda-bajracharya"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ambalika-devi-87bb408bc8.jpg","width":500,"height":686,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambalika_Devi.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ambalika Devi","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambalika_Devi","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): अम्बालिकादेवी","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q109247727","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109247727","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ambalika Devi.jpg by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambalika_Devi.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ambalika Devi, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ambalika Devi.jpg — Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Public domain.","cite":"\"Ambalika Devi\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:57:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi?lang=ne"}}